Hohn's earnings were up slightly from 2012, when he made $277,567. Reached by phone Tuesday, the lieutenant said he works overtime whenever he is offered the opportunity and spent a great deal of time last year completing an in-depth school security audit for the Board of Education.

"Whenever they called me I worked," Hohn said. "After (the school shooting in) Newtown we were tasked with doing security assessments for every school in Stamford. So that took up about the first five months of my year and factored in heavily to my overtime."

Public safety employees, who are mainly police officers, occupied 80 spots on the list of the city's 100 highest paid workers in 2013, according to a roster released by Mayor David Martin's office Tuesday. The list included police extra duty pay, which officers earn when they take on side jobs policing construction sites, special events or other privately-paid work.

Extra duty pay is processed by Stamford's payroll department, but not directly funded by taxpayers through the budget process unless they are hired for Board of Education or other city events. The Stamford Police Association paid the payroll department $1.3 million last fiscal year to administer its extra duty program.

The association released a statement Tuesday criticizing the city's inclusion of extra duty pay in its payroll roster.

"Stamford's police extra duty program succeeds in putting additional uniformed officers in highly visible locations across the city without cost to taxpayers," SPA President Todd Lobraico said in a statement. "Not only has this served as a key deterrent to crime, but the city treasury even achieves a 16% mark-up for administering the program."

Hohn drops to No. 2 on the city's list of highest paid employees if his $23,000 in extra duty pay is removed from his earnings. In that scenario, Schools Superintendent Winifred Hamilton claims the city's highest paid position with $271,019 in 2013 earnings.

Hamilton did not immediately return a call for comment Tuesday evening.